Effect of Selected Yogic, Aerobic Exercises and Combined Yogic and Aerobic Practices on Flexibility (an Experimental Study)

Dr.Manjappa.P; Dr.Shivaram Reddy. M

Volume : II, Issue : V, May - 2013

Effect of Selected Yogic, Aerobic Exercises and Combined Yogic and Aerobic Practices on Flexibility (an Experimental Study)

Dr. Manjappa. P, Dr. Shivaram Reddy. M

Abstract :

Flexibility is the ability of an individual to move the body and its parts through as wide range of motion as possible without undue strain to the articulations and muscle attachments. Flexibility may be defined as a joint�s ability to move freely or normal range of motion. Yogic and aerobic exercises are much more flexible than other physical activates especially in flexion and extension. Flexibility exercises are more conducive to build endurance in movements like running, dancing, swimming and tumbling than short static and weight lifting type of exercise. Yoga and aerobic are individual activities. Yoga is a traditional Indian system of healing the mind and body through the series of mental, spiritual and physical exercise. Aerobic dance can best be defined as continuous movement exercise with locomotor movement and dance steps performed to music. Aerobic dance provides an opportunity for people of widely different levels of physical ability to participate together with musical accompaniment engaging in exercise and skills which have been choreographed according to the needs of the individual. Yogasana and aerobic develops physical fitness such as strength, flexibility, co ordination and balance. The purpose of this study is to find out the effect of yogic, aerobic exercises and combined yogic and aerobic practice on flexibility of high school boys. For this study 160 High School Boys were selected randomly. Further they were divided into four groups with 40 subjects in each group, such as yogic group, aerobic group, combined (Yogic and Aerobic) practice group and control group. Hence the difference between mean of four groups in the pre–test had to be taken into account during the analysis of the post–test difference between the mean. This was achieved by the application of the analysis of co–variance, where the final mean were adjusted for difference in the initial means and the adjusted means were tested for significance. The study proved that flexibility was significantly increased in combined (yogic and aerobic) practice group when compared to other groups.